Spark-jobserver is available as a Docker container! This might be the easiest way to get started and deploy.
To get started:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1
This will start job server on port 8090 in a container, with H2 database and Mesos support, and expose that port to the host on which you run the container.
If you would like to debug job server using JMX / VisualVM etc., then also expose port 9999.
By default, the container has an embedded Spark distro and runs using Spark local mode (local[4]
).
To change the spark master the container runs against, set SPARK_MASTER when you start the container:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 -e SPARK_MASTER=mesos://zk://mesos.master:5050 velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1
You can easily change the amount of memory job server uses with JOBSERVER_MEMORY
, or replace the entire config job server uses at startup with JOBSERVER_CONFIG
.
The standard way to replace the config is to derive a custom Docker image from the job server one by overwriting the default config at app/docker.conf
. The Dockerfile would look like this:
from velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1
add /path/to/my/jobserver.conf /app/docker.conf
Similarly, to change the logging configuration, inherit from this container and overwrite /app/log4j-server.properties
.
Any spark-submit
arguments can be passed to the tail of the docker run
command. A very common use of this is to add custom jars to your Spark job environment. For example, to add the Datastax Spark-Cassandra Connector to your job:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1 --packages com.datastax.spark:spark-cassandra-connector_2.10:1.6.1
Docker containers are usually stateless, but it wouldn't be very useful to have the jars and job config reset every time you had to kill and restart a container.
The job server docker image is configured to use H2 database by default and to write the database to a Docker volume at /database
, which will be persisted between container restarts, and can even be shared amongst multiple job server containers on the same host. Note that in order to persist them to new containers, you need to create a local directory, something like this:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 -v /opt/job-server-db:/database velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1
See the Docker Volumes Guide for more info.
Another option is to configure job server to persist metadata in PostGres, MySQL, or similar database. To do that, create a new config, pass it into the docker container as above using JOBSERVER_CONFIG
and the /config
volume, and point to your shared database, perhaps using --link
to a PostGres or MySQL container.
Logging goes to stdout, as per standard Docker conventions. Therefore:
- Use
docker logs -f <containerHash>
to follow logs - Use
docker logs --tail=100 <containerHash>
to list the last 100 lines - Use Docker logging drivers to redirect logs to syslog, SumoLogic, etc.
Example Marathon config, thanks to @peterklipfel:
{
"id": "spark.jobserver",
"container": {
"type": "DOCKER",
"docker": {
"image": "velvia/spark-jobserver:0.6.2.mesos-0.28.1.spark-1.6.1",
"network": "BRIDGE",
"portMappings": [{
"containerPort": 8090,
"hostPort": 0,
"protocol": "tcp"
}],
"privileged": false
}
},
"args": [
"--packages", "com.datastax.spark:spark-cassandra-connector_2.10:1.6.1,com.github.sstone:amqp-client_2.10:1.5,com.rabbitmq:amqp-client:3.2.1, com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.10:2.3.11,com.github.nscala-time:nscala-time_2.10:1.6.0,com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.2.2, com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.2.2,com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_2.10:2.2.2,org.scalaj:scalaj-http_2.10:1.1.4,org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-spark_2.10:2.1.0.Beta3,spark.jobserver:job-server-api:0.6.2,spark.jobserver:job-server-extras:0.6.2"
],
"env": {
"SPARK_MASTER": "mesos.ourcluster.internal:5050"
},
"cpus": 0.5,
"mem": 100,
"instances": 1
}
You might not be able to access HDFS, or whatever shared file system your data files are on. Make sure the right ports are open. Also see spark-jobserver#243 (comment).
You may need to enable host-only networking to get Docker to work in AWS.